MALAWI - Press Review November 2009

CHAD: Prices hike, teachers strike

Teachers demanding more pay to face higher food prices entered the third day of a nationwide strike. The government has called their demands "illegal" and "unjustified", because the "high cost of living is a general problem that does not concern only the teachers.

2009 Cost of living in Malawi, much better than 2008 and 2007

As far as cost of living is concerned, the just ended year was a good year, not only in terms of food availability, but in terms of the pace at which the general prices of basic commodities in the urban areas were increasing/decreasing (inflation). Although cost of living generally increased in December 2009 in all the four cities, the trend for the whole year is more favourable than in the past three years.